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    Slideshow • ISSUE 44•37 • Sep 15, 2008
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    • Vehement Anti-Cell-Phone Guy Finally Caves

      ANN ARBOR, MI—After calling the device
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    • Brookstone Scientists 10 Years Away From Towel Alarm Clock

      MERRIMACK, NH—"No longer will people have to lug their alarm clock from the bedroom to the shower every morning," executive director of research Bryan Davies said.
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    • New Remote Control Can Be Operated By Remote

      TOKYO—Television watching became even more convenient this week with Sony's introduction of a new remote-controlled remote control.
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    • New Sony In-Utero TV To Entertain Children In The Womb

      LOS ANGELES—The entertainment industry is abuzz following the Sony Corporation's unveiling Monday of the Utertron 9000, a state-of-the-art in-utero womb-entertainment system for children between the ages of minus nine months and zero.
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    • Area Mom: 'I Finally Learned Computers'

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    • 36-Year-Old Still Looking For Ways To Make Brushing Fun

      SAN FRANCISCO—More than three decades after acquiring his first Pink Panther toothbrush, Mark Naasz continues to search unsuccessfully for new ways to make brushing his teeth fun, the 36-year-old Bernal Heights resident revealed Monday.
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    • Computer-Generated Talking Cat On TV Delights Iowa Woman

      OTTUMWA, IA—A computer-manipulated talking cat in a commercial for Fresh Step cat litter thoroughly delighted Ottumwa resident Sheila Dagenhardt Monday.
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    • Scientists Ask Congress To Fund $50 Billion Science Thing

      WASHINGTON, DC— "I agree we need this scientific apparatus, because, in the end, science is more important than it is unimportant," Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) said.
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    • VCR Fast-Forwarded With Toe

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    • Roomba Violates All Three Laws Of Roombotics

      CHARLOTTE, NC—While the Roomba is only programmed to vacuum, its owner, 35-year-old claims adjuster Ken Graney now fears it may have taught itself to tidy up.
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